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Old 31-07-2019, 00:55   #10
BenMcr
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Re: Do VM make you go back to a TiVo if you drop down to basic package?

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
There's no reason a V6 wouldn't work with slower broadband. The highest bitrate downloaded is 4K on iPlayer which was 40 meg allegedly.

Virgin are being arbitrary.
Considering M50 is the lowest new customer tier for Virgin Fibre available, it's mainly there as a requirement for older bundle customers. But those customers have also being targeted for speed upgrades so that Virgin Media can simplify the broadband tiers they have to support.

So it doesn't really actually matter - almost all customers with Virgin Fibre will have M50 or higher.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
As always - can you prove that it wouldn't?

The nearest comparable product in the market, Sky Q, works perfectly well without 100 meg (or 50 meg) broadband.
That's because they operate their On Demand services as cache service on Sky Q, so it's download first before streaming, and it just depends how much is downloaded first.

Virgin's On Demand that's delivered over the broadband connection is immediate streaming because the Virgin Fibre speeds are fast enough to allow it. Soon all of the direct Virgin On Demand will be delivered that way - the older On Demand that's been around since the V box days will be completely retired.

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The limitations would be on streaming services - and being unable to stream HD or UHD content at slower speeds. You don't really want to be going down the line that UK broadband infrastructure is wholly inadequate for streaming services, do you?
It's not just about single streams - you can have up to three V6 boxes per household. Have all of those going at the same time for On Demand or Streaming apps and you can easily get to 50Mb across the household - before you even factor in internet activity on other devices.
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